Most Popular USB 3.0 Flash Drive: SanDisk Ultra Fit
When it comes to picking a great USB drive, you need a few things: speed, portability, flexibility, storage, and affordability. We asked you to pick the right drives , then looked at the top five USB 3.0 flash drives and put them to a vote. We will now return to your favorite.
Obviously size matters because the SanDisk Ultra Fit came in first, but with only two freaking votes when the poll ended. After all, it’s huge capacity and tiny size – for example, “leave it in your laptop while you carry it around,” small, received 28.3% of the vote. The fact that many of you have reported heat issues and the difficulty of removing them when necessary has not affected many of you.
However, for those of you who were convinced, you chose the more modest, but also more durable and attractive Kingston Digital Data Traveler , which dropped to second place, as we said, by two votes, with 28.2% of the vote. All aluminum with a ring on the back that is perfect for a key chain or carrying bag, Kingston deserves your praise for its speed and reliability. Third place and 25% of the votes went to SanDisk Extreme . Many of you have pointed out that it’s a little big, especially if you’re looking for something to carry around every day, but its read and write speeds are unmatched and it’s one of the fastest drives you’ll ever have. used. Fourth place and over 10% of the votes went to the Corsair Flash Voyager Go with USB and microUSB ports and OTG compatibility, so it’s tough enough for travel, but great for use with OTG-enabled laptops and Android devices. Finally, in second place, with just 8% of the vote, was PNY Turbo , a super affordable and portable USB 3.0 flash drive that gets the job done without breaking your wallet.
To learn more about each of them, as well as honorable mentions not listed here, be sure to return to the full Hive Five feature to find out more.
Hive Five is based on reader nominations. As with most of Hive Five’s posts, if your favorite was skipped, it didn’t receive the nominations required in an ad for the challenger post to make it to the top five. We understand that this is a kind of popularity contest. Any suggestions for Hive Five? Send us an email at tips+hivefive@lifehacker.com !